> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>> (I never really understood why programs produce core dumps. I mean, 
>>> seriously. What chance is there of anybody *ever* deducing anything 
>>> useful from this data? 10^-78?)
>>
>> The original programmer with access to the sourcecode *can* deduce 
>> data from it.
> 
> I seriously doubt it...

Load a core dump on a debugger along with the executable containing 
debugging info and the sourcecode, and you can pinpoint the line of code 
that caused the crash, and see the contents of variables at the moment 
of the crash. That's why coredumps are so big sometimes, they contain 
all of the process's memory.

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